'We're raising our future'

New mom Nicole Woods and her son, Sky.

It was just before Halloween last year when Nicole Shore gave birth to her son, Sky. Born Oct. 24, the 6-month-old quickly has become everything and more to the working mother.

Co-owner of Voodoux Tattoo in Bossier City, Shore is a busy mom and a full-time tattoo artist. But now Sky comes first.

"It's the most important job a woman can have. We're raising our future," Shore said. "It's such a neat thing to create a person. I had an awesome mom myself, and I wanted to be like her - I wanted to be a good mom to somebody."

The 29-year-old, along with her husband, Josh, had been trying for three years to become pregnant. So after a few false alarms, learning she was going to be a mother came as a shock to Shore.

"The first couple of weeks until I was able to go to the doctor, I took so many pregnancy tests - I didn't believe it," said Shore.

That uneasiness soon turned to joy when her doctor confirmed Shore was pregnant. "I was ecstatic," she said.

While Shore was pregnant, she thought about being more of a stay-at-home mom; but after Sky was born, she was able to find a way to balance a career and motherhood - for now.

"A lot of my customers ask where my baby is, 'Why don't you bring him to work with you?' This is work. How would you like it if I stopped in the middle of a tattoo to attend to my crying baby? It just doesn't work like that," she said. "People assume I could, and I could, but I wouldn't do any work - I'd just be playing with him."

Both Shore and her husband lead artistic lifestyles, (Josh is a guitarist) so music and art are always around Sky. Shore said that's important to her. And, at not even a year old, Shore knows Sky is growing and changing -she's excited to help him learn and explore his world.

"We're just getting to the fun part," she said. "Just seeing the progression of seeing him learn new things all the time, doing new things - that's the coolest part."

Shore plans to spend Mother's Day with her husband and family having a picnic in the park, a tradition she hopes to continue with her son.

"I will be thinking about our future together as a family and what kind of person he will become," she said.

- Derick Jones

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'We're raising our future'

First-time mom Nicole Shore plans to spend today with her husband and family having a picnic in the park, a tradition she hopes to continue with her son. 'I will be thinking about our future together